BEIJING (AP) — A growing number of countries are confronting the dual challenges of population decline and aging, as younger generations opt to have fewer children and advances in healthcare extend life expectancy. China said Friday that its population fell for the third straight year in 2024, falling by almost 1.4 million to 1.408 billion….
It’s hard to imagine anything less likely to encourage you to rip off your clothes and start procreating than having Elon Musk held up as a paragon of fecundity. No reflection on the charms of his numerous offspring, little X Æ A-Xii, Techno Mechanicus, Exa Dark Sideræl (who is just two, but has already changed…
In picking billionaire Elon Musk to be “our cost cutter” for the U.S. government, President-elect Donald Trump won’t be the first American president to empower a business tycoon to look for ways to dramatically cut federal regulations. President Ronald Reagan tapped J. Peter Grace to lead a bureaucratic cost-cutting commission in 1982. Still, the chemical…
Chinese President Xi Jinping has given his Italian counterpart Sergio Mattarella a collection of soil taken from the moon by the Chang’e-5 lunar probe. The gifts included 1 gram of samples scooped and drilled from the moon for research purposes and another 0.3 micrograms of soil held inside an ornament, state broadcaster CCTV reported. Mattarella…
The European Union is planning for talks with Donald Trump’s transition team as it seeks to head off a major economic and political shock after his convincing victory in Tuesday’s US presidential election. High on their wish list will be keeping the tap open for US funds to flow to Ukraine and avoiding scything tariffs…
At the event, he presented her with the Atlantic Council Global Citizen Award. Maye Musk, mother of billionaire Elon Musk, addressed rumours surrounding a viral photo of her son with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on X (formerly Twitter). The image at a New York awards ceremony shows the two smiling together, fueling speculation and…
Mom Maye Musk took to X to set records straight after an X user wrote, “We all know what happened next” while sharing a viral picture of Elon Musk with Giorgia Meloni. In the photo, captured at an awards ceremony in New York, the tech billionaire and the Italian PM are seen looking at each…
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk denied having any romantic relationship with “beautiful” Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni after the two were seen cozying up together at an awards reception in New York City. The billionaire, 53, and far-right politician, 47, were pictured gazing into each other’s eyes at the Atlantic Council’s Global Citizen Awards…
This article was originally published in Italian Italy has led the way for Musk’s companies to invest in satellite internet and space. Will it in return be supported by the EU line on social media and issues dear to the right? An award the high-tech magnate presented to Meloni on Monday raises several questions. ADVERTISEMENT On…
The internet has labelled Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni as a “perfect couple” after the former praised her at an awards ceremony in New York on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday. Italy’s prime minister Giorgia Meloni and Elon Musk (Twitter) Seeing the two together at…